Lucian LaTaste and John Torrey correspondence, [1838]

by: LaTaste, Lucian,1808-

Publication date: 1838

Topics: Botany, Textbooks, LaTaste, Lucian, 1808-, Torrey, John, 1796-1873, Georgia Female College (Macon, Ga.)

Collection: nybgtorrey; biodiversity; NY_Botanical_Garden

Digitizing sponsor: NEH PW-234827-16

Contributor: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Language: English

John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden

Correspondence from Lucian LaTaste to John Torrey, undated [1838], soliciting Torrey's support in promoting his proposed botanical textbook, Flora Georgiensis: "May I, respected sr., solicit the aid of yr. distinguished name, and high influence in promoting the publication of the above work?" LaTaste's note is written on a prospectus for the book

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Abstract: Correspondence from Lucian LaTaste to John Torrey, undated [1838], soliciting Torrey's support in promoting his proposed botanical textbook, Flora Georgiensis: 'May I, respected sr., solicit the aid of yr. distinguished name, and high influence in promoting the publication of the above work?' LaTaste's note is written on a prospectus for the book.